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Science

grumpyduck

(6,654 posts)

9. Wow, thanks for all your replies.

Reply to grumpyduck (Original post)

Fri Apr 7, 2023, 08:15 AM

Apr 2023

Black holes are fascinating.

From the little I remember of HS chemistry, atoms actually have a lot of "empty" space between the core and the electrons. So it might follow that if gravity is so intense in a hole, even the atoms would be compressed, but only to a point. IOW, going by the comment that there's no such thing as infinitely dense, we could end up with a plethora of protons, neutrons, and electrons all mashed together: atomic particles that don't make up atoms any more.

Ah, guesswork...